Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance Sources and Encounters

• Main Authors: Zinguer, Ilana, Melamed, Abraham, Shalev, Zur
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston BRILL 2011
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Cabala and Christianity-Italy-Congresses; Christian Hebraists-Europe-History-Congresses; Christianity and other religions-Judaism-Congresses; Civilization, Modern-Jewish influences-Congresses; Jewish philosophy-History-Congresses; Judaism-Relations-Christianity-Congresses; Renaissance-Congresses

This collection of essays offers a fresh look into Christian-Jewish cultural interactions during the Renaissance and beyond. Christian scholars, it is shown, were deeply immersed in a variety of Hebrew sources, while their Jewish counterparts imbibed the culture of Humanism.

Table of Contents:

• Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Participants -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Introductions -- Part I - Kabbalah and Mysticism -- Giulio Camillo's Memory Theatre and the Kabbalah -- Entering the Labyrinth: On the Hebraic and Kabbalistic Universe ofEgidio da Viterbo -- Whither Kabbalah? Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Kabbalah,and the Disputations against Judicial Astrology -- Part II - Philosophy and the Humanities -- A - The Abravanel -- A Paradigm in Isaac Abravanel's Encounter withRenaissance Culture -- Leone Ebreo's Dialoghi d'amore as a Pivotal Document of Jewish-Christian Relations in Renaissance Rome -- B - Philosophical Aspects -- The Immortality of the Soul and Opening Up to the Christian World:A Chapter in Early Modern Jewish-Italian Literature -- Authority vs. Authenticity. The Leiden Debate on Bibleand Hebrew (1575-1650) -- C - Conversos, Language and Baroque -- De la pureté de sang aux XVe et XVIe siècles -- L'implicite à propos des Juifs de Rome -- Vers une sémiotique du Judaïsme à l'âge baroque -- D - Literature -- Moses Zacuto Poet of Kabbalah -- Le Rôle de la poésie Hébraïque dans l'enseignement de CharlesUtenhove -- E - Hebraism and Geographical Thought -- The Role of Early Renaissance Geographical Discoveriesin Yohanan Alemanno's Messianic Thought -- Kabbale et cosmographie, de Guillaume Postel à Jacques d'Auzoles-Lapeyre -- Conclusion -- Race, Antisemitism and the Renaissance in Fascist Italy -- General Bibliography -- Index -- Figures